GitHub news stories - Page 2

App development
This is the Octoverse: GitHub contributors by the numbers
Between 2017 and 2018 there has been a 44% jump in the number of organisations using GitHub across public and private repositories.

Remote Working
GitHub & the power of a truly global workforce
Look beyond the code on GitHub and you’ll see a huge community of people from almost every corner of the globe contributing to more than 96 million repositories.

Cloud
GitHub’s ‘universe of data’ empowers developers
“These past ten years have been the most transformative in tech,” says GitHub SVP Technology Jason Warner.

Analytics
GitHub for Atom launches new pull request features and emoji support
GitHub says the new features are just a few of a swath of improvements that will be coming to Atom.

Microsoft
Exclusive: How open source is driving innovation in A/NZ
"Open source is quickly becoming mainstream and the community behind it just keeps on growing."

Passwords
GitHub security tool checks passwords against 517m breached credentials
Web development and coding platform GitHub has rolled out password and two-factor authentication revamps to make user accounts more secure.

Coding
GitHub rolls out security alerts feature for Python
“Over the coming weeks, we will be adding more historical Python vulnerabilities to our database. "

Cloud
Exclusive: GitHub's seamless approach to helping businesses stay agile and compliant
Caught in the belief that rapid software development is impossible with compliance obligations always in the way? Think again, says GitHub.

Cloud
Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
"Microsoft is a developer-first company, and by joining forces with GitHub we strengthen our commitment to developer freedom."

Development
GitHub introduces new bot-powered learning platform
With GitHub Learning Lab, developers will learn through issues opened by a bot in a GitHub repository.

Microsoft
34 tech heavyweights stand strong: Protecting the globe from cyber threats
Not only with the companies protect customers, they've also vowed not to help governments who want to go on the cyber offensive.

Security vulnerabilities
GitHub boosts bug bounty program & payouts in 2017 with more to come this year
GitHub’s Security Bug Bounty program paid out more than US$166,000 in 2017 after a significant payout revamp that doubled amounts across the board.

Open source
GitHub reveals open source project trends for 2018
Last year, 24 million people from over 200 different countries worked together on GitHub to code better and build bigger.

Open source
GitHub reveals the global tech policies impacting 2018
Regulators in Europe, China, and elsewhere are increasingly setting the agenda on issues ranging from data protection to cybersecurity and AI.

Open source
GitHub to boost security tracking for developers' projects
GitHub has unveiled security improvements that will allow developers to track which dependencies are associated with public security vulnerabilities.

Application Performance Monitoring / APM
GitHub makes its Developer Program free to all users
GitHub has made its Developer Progam free to all of its 19 million users, allowing developers worldwide to use the global web-based platform.

Open source
Malware campaign targets open source developers on GitHub
Be on your guard if you’re a developer who uses GitHub – someone could be trying to infect your computer with malware.

Distributor
Amrut Software officially a Github distie for India
Currently, more than 15 million people use GitHub to discover, and contribute to over 38 million projects.